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has conducted 362 drone strikes in pakistan since 2004 with 128 in 2010 alone. the program's covert nature has alarmed civil rights activists and the human rights council has now launched an investigation into drone attacks connected to civilian casualties. joining us now to discuss the war on terror is the director of the aclu, national security project, hannah. thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> this is a conversation that i think gradually is taking more of a role on center stage. especially with the appointment of john brennan and as we look at john kerry and chuck hagel. in terms of u.s. national security and foreign policy, the get month trials, however, we -- there was a lot of discussion, a lot of hub bub when they were going to be in new york, but here they are beginning in guantanamo bay, and there is very little discussion about the fact that they are happening there. you guys have challenged the sort of legitimacy of these. the nation writes today "at guantanamo the government is still making up the law as it goes along. the milita
has conducted 362 drone strikes in pakistan since 2004 with 128 in 2010 alone. the program's covert nature has alarmed civil rights activists and the human rights council has now launched an investigation into drone attacks connected to civilian casualties. joining us now to discuss the war on terror is the director of the aclu, national security project, hannah. thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> this is a conversation that i think gradually is taking more of a...
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it's now the most popular web site in pakistan, and he is one of the most successful businessmen in pakistan. similar thing happened with another character in the book, a turkish engineer who worked in silicon valley for a few years. he went home, back to turkey, and he noticed something. the wi-fi systems in the united states didn't work well in turkey because the walls are very thick, and he initially tried to attract american firms to change the equipment, make it stronger so it would work through the walls in turkey. they wouldn't listen to him. so in 2004 he started a company called air ties, and today it's one of the largest tech companies in turkey. he has expanded this system across the middle east, beating cisco at its own game, and he is again an example of this new, more forward-looking business class that has emerged in the region. the last person is a few tunisian. and there was this brand new sparkling tower there, and he is the -- sorry -- the manager of a company called sunguard. they're an american software company, about 17,000 employees worldwide. they specialize in doing
it's now the most popular web site in pakistan, and he is one of the most successful businessmen in pakistan. similar thing happened with another character in the book, a turkish engineer who worked in silicon valley for a few years. he went home, back to turkey, and he noticed something. the wi-fi systems in the united states didn't work well in turkey because the walls are very thick, and he initially tried to attract american firms to change the equipment, make it stronger so it would work...
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we're gettingma pictures of quau in pakistan. p over 200 are dead with some reports putting that number at 250. entire villages were flattened. also the craik created a new island just off the southernhern coast. >> president obama and the firsf laid yes returned to the white t house last night after the trip to new york city. earlier in the day mr. obama addressed the united nations general assembly. taking center stage the unresolved crisis in syria and d the role of the international community. united nations chemical weapons inspectors are headed back to syria today to complete the investigation. in new york city yesterday former president clinton's annual global initiative. >> he was late to the panelnel discussion so irish rocker bono stepped right now. >> when ight first met been onoe walks -- met bono he walked intw the oval office and i thought it was a member of his own road crew. [ laughter ] ] he wasn't really dresd right. i felt like the rock store on that occasion. [ laughter ] but together, you know we didid this d
we're gettingma pictures of quau in pakistan. p over 200 are dead with some reports putting that number at 250. entire villages were flattened. also the craik created a new island just off the southernhern coast. >> president obama and the firsf laid yes returned to the white t house last night after the trip to new york city. earlier in the day mr. obama addressed the united nations general assembly. taking center stage the unresolved crisis in syria and d the role of the international...
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girl who became a global inspiration after she survived an assassination attempt by the taliban in pakistan, because she spoke out for the rights of young women. her name, malala, now being mentioned for the nobel peace prize. and tonight we're hearing from her for the first time since her remarkable recovery. our report from nbc's keir simmons in london. >> today you can see that i'm alive. i can speak. i can see you. i can see everyone. and i'm getting better day by day. >> reporter: malala yousafzai's first words on camera were to thank others. >> because all the people, men, women, children, all of them have prayed for me. and because of these prayers, god has given me this new life. >> reporter: she almost died. shot in the head last october by islamic extremists, because she fought for the right of young women to have an education. on saturday, she walked to the operating room. for five more hours of surgery. doctors implanted a titanium plate and a sophisticated hearing aid, repairing where the bullet smashed her skull and left her deaf in one ear. 24 hours later, malala was talking
girl who became a global inspiration after she survived an assassination attempt by the taliban in pakistan, because she spoke out for the rights of young women. her name, malala, now being mentioned for the nobel peace prize. and tonight we're hearing from her for the first time since her remarkable recovery. our report from nbc's keir simmons in london. >> today you can see that i'm alive. i can speak. i can see you. i can see everyone. and i'm getting better day by day. >>...
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b, to the degree that al qaeda has moved over into pakistan, that's a country that has over 100 nuclear weapons. syria, which is an ongoing problem. the suggestion constantly seems to be that we need to come in on the side of the rebels. there are at least 1,000 al qaeda members in syria today fighting on the side of the rebels. if the chemical weapons fall into their hands, big problems. you mentioned iran. remember now, and it may even have been on this program, i think that netanyahu suggested that come spring, come early summer, if the iranians still have not pulled back from building a nuclear weapon, the israelis may attack. the iranians would respond against the united states. and they have the capacity to do it with cyber war. >> i think it's even bigger and more troubling than that. it isn't just the middle east and that region. look at north korea. announcing that they are going to target the united states. they have nuclear weapons, unlike iran at this point. you look at what happened in algeria and mali. the egypt problem is not solved. i actually had one of the experts tell
b, to the degree that al qaeda has moved over into pakistan, that's a country that has over 100 nuclear weapons. syria, which is an ongoing problem. the suggestion constantly seems to be that we need to come in on the side of the rebels. there are at least 1,000 al qaeda members in syria today fighting on the side of the rebels. if the chemical weapons fall into their hands, big problems. you mentioned iran. remember now, and it may even have been on this program, i think that netanyahu...
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machine singled out countries like iran north korea or targets obscure booky man in countries like yemen pakistan and mali so we have to ask ourselves if we as americans will ever learn from these mistakes or what we continue to believe in invisible threats and manufactured evidence at face value i won't tell you let's break the said. looking for a. regime anything like. oh . wow. last month north korea announced it will conduct a nuclear test in protest of the latest round of sanctions invoked against them as a response secretary of state john kerry and his counterpart in south korea made it very clear that it would be unacceptable for north korea to proceed with testing their nuclear program but this is nothing new in two thousand and six and two thousand and nine north korea issued two bomb tests despite international pressure and similar threats and it all comes back to the same line that north korea is an imminent threat to the u.s. and its allies that the big bad communist regime having control of a nuclear weapon is dangerous to the peace and stability of the world but your first stop to a
machine singled out countries like iran north korea or targets obscure booky man in countries like yemen pakistan and mali so we have to ask ourselves if we as americans will ever learn from these mistakes or what we continue to believe in invisible threats and manufactured evidence at face value i won't tell you let's break the said. looking for a. regime anything like. oh . wow. last month north korea announced it will conduct a nuclear test in protest of the latest round of sanctions invoked...
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machine singled out countries like iran north korea or targets obscure booky man countries like yemen pakistan and mali so we have to ask ourselves if we as americans will ever learn from these mistakes or what we continue to believe in invisible threats and manufactured evidence at face value i won't tell you let's break this set. up. if you've ever seen anything like that. last month north korea announced it will conduct a nuclear test in protest of the latest round of sanctions invoked against them as a response secretary of state john kerry and his counterpart in south korea made it very clear that it would be unacceptable for north korea to proceed with testing their nuclear program but this is nothing new in two thousand and six and two thousand and nine north korea issued two bomb tests despite international pressure and similar threats and it all comes back to the same line that north korea is an imminent threat to the u.s. and its allies that the big bad communist regime having control of a nuclear weapon is dangerous to the peace and stability of the world but your first stop to ask
machine singled out countries like iran north korea or targets obscure booky man countries like yemen pakistan and mali so we have to ask ourselves if we as americans will ever learn from these mistakes or what we continue to believe in invisible threats and manufactured evidence at face value i won't tell you let's break this set. up. if you've ever seen anything like that. last month north korea announced it will conduct a nuclear test in protest of the latest round of sanctions invoked...
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although there will be serious questions raised on drone strikes and pakistan, afghanistan and yemen and elsewhere, enhanced interrogation techniques and other sensitive areas, what's going to happen to detainees at guantanamo bay in cuba. the most controversial nominee will be chuck hagel, former republican senator from nebraska, who the president wants him to succeed leon panetta as the next secretary of defense. that confirmation process will begin fairly soon. they've done all the vetting, gone through all the background checks. chuck hagel does have government experience since leaving the senate. he will be in the president's foreign intelligence advisory board as well as on the defense advisory board. defense department's advisory board as it's called. he has been very much involved in these areas, not only there, but also at the atlanta council, a major think tank here in washington and he has been teaching at georgetown university. fairly well known to those of us who have been covering washington for a long time. less well known outside of washington but we're about to learn
although there will be serious questions raised on drone strikes and pakistan, afghanistan and yemen and elsewhere, enhanced interrogation techniques and other sensitive areas, what's going to happen to detainees at guantanamo bay in cuba. the most controversial nominee will be chuck hagel, former republican senator from nebraska, who the president wants him to succeed leon panetta as the next secretary of defense. that confirmation process will begin fairly soon. they've done all the vetting,...
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meaning that little sliver as he defines it along the afghan/pakistan border. the fact is historically al qaeda's central control has ebbed and flowed. one of the geniuses of what osama bin laden set up, really, was local groups feeding on local grievances, taking advantage of local circumstances to advance the larger cause, which they can unite around. and as they apparently did in the case of this threat in yemen. al qaeda's not like a corporation or a division -- army division in the military. it's a different kind of organization. we have to recognize that. >> it seems that the leader of al qaeda now is not on the run. apparently the reports say we intercepted some type of phone conversation, a conference call of some sort between him and maybe 20 al qaeda officials. maybe it was an internet chat. maybe there were skyping. that sounds silly that al qaeda would be on the phone with a conference call. what do you think led to this tip to close these facilities and basically how do we know as i asked originally that the coast is clear? >> i think there was pro
meaning that little sliver as he defines it along the afghan/pakistan border. the fact is historically al qaeda's central control has ebbed and flowed. one of the geniuses of what osama bin laden set up, really, was local groups feeding on local grievances, taking advantage of local circumstances to advance the larger cause, which they can unite around. and as they apparently did in the case of this threat in yemen. al qaeda's not like a corporation or a division -- army division in the...
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leader in bangladesh has been sentenced to death for his part in the country's war of independence from pakistan. salahuddin quader chowdhury was found guilty of nine charges out of 23, including genocide, murder and abduction. he is the first sitting member of parliament and most senior figure in the opposition. bangladesh, nationalist party, to be convicted by the tribunal. this is holding the first meeting of a new kitchen cabinet for the vatican. the group of eight cardinals have been chosen to help reform the way the catholic church is run. the pope has described the vatican court as the lepp si of the papacy. he said the church must engage ore with the modern world. to syria now where their mission is part of an agreement reached between the united states and russia and endorsed by the unite nations security council. syria has said they will comply with the process. the inspectors from the organization of the prohobition of chemical weapons face the daunting task of trying to destroy a country's nuclear arsenal in the middle of a war. our correspondent jim muir in bay rite joins us now. on
leader in bangladesh has been sentenced to death for his part in the country's war of independence from pakistan. salahuddin quader chowdhury was found guilty of nine charges out of 23, including genocide, murder and abduction. he is the first sitting member of parliament and most senior figure in the opposition. bangladesh, nationalist party, to be convicted by the tribunal. this is holding the first meeting of a new kitchen cabinet for the vatican. the group of eight cardinals have been...
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>> i worry about the list and iran, pakistan. i worry about mexico. i worry that we don't pay even if attention to what is happening on our side of the border. if you live in california or new mexico, you know the drug cartels alone a lot of the space between northern mexico and the border of the united states and it is very dangerous. last year or two years ago there were 5,000 kidnappings and murders of officials, mexican officials, probably twice that in the last couple of years so very dangerous, but you know what keeps me about my is the question of whether the united states is going to reaffirm and somehow to the internal repair that we need to do. all i worry that we can't seem to get our entitlement under control. i worry we can't get our budget deficit under control and immigration policy and the fact that in case 12 education i can look at your zip code and tell whether or not you are going to get a good education and that is not just wrong, it is actually probably going to undo us more quickly than anything the chinese could do because if w
>> i worry about the list and iran, pakistan. i worry about mexico. i worry that we don't pay even if attention to what is happening on our side of the border. if you live in california or new mexico, you know the drug cartels alone a lot of the space between northern mexico and the border of the united states and it is very dangerous. last year or two years ago there were 5,000 kidnappings and murders of officials, mexican officials, probably twice that in the last couple of years so...
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well, there are problems in pakistan, but there are a lot of positives of pakistan. which doesn't -- which i feel should also be portrayed. >> the capture and killing of osama bin laden put another strain on the u.s.-pakistan relationship because of the covert nature of that operation. people are saying that relationship has never been worse. what is the quickest and best way to fix that international relationship between pakistan and the united states? >> i feel, yes, they have never been that bad, and i think in my time, the relations were good, although we were facing the same threat, and we were dealing with the threat in our own ways. there were lots of differences of opinion, but i feel that the main difference is i had good communication, and i personally believe that interstate relations have a lot to do with interpersonal relations. i are very good interpersonal relations with president george bush, with general colin powell. we could communicate with each other any time, and we spoke very, very frankly. there was total trust and confidence between us. we kn
well, there are problems in pakistan, but there are a lot of positives of pakistan. which doesn't -- which i feel should also be portrayed. >> the capture and killing of osama bin laden put another strain on the u.s.-pakistan relationship because of the covert nature of that operation. people are saying that relationship has never been worse. what is the quickest and best way to fix that international relationship between pakistan and the united states? >> i feel, yes, they have...
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one in pakistan where we have learned from a leaked list that two significant pakistan taliban leaders were freed from that. a man called al-balar. he's on the run. there's a wanted poster for him. concerns as to the nature and seniority of people released in these jailbreaks. >> thank you. i want to bring in our cnn law enforcement analyst. nick just mentioned a powerful person. a member of al qaeda who is on the loose. how much of this is based on the fact there are dangerous guys out there who might be in a position of power. >> of course they're in a position of power. it's hard to say. i don't think they know for sure whether the prison breaks are related to the threats going on now or the leaders that were released in those breaks were involved in the planning of the current threats that are out there. >> tom, we mentioned these intercepted messages. what do you think is behind. what do you think the intelligence community deal with when you look at the reaction to this, these closings. >> i think based on what they're saying that the threat information through intercepted phone
one in pakistan where we have learned from a leaked list that two significant pakistan taliban leaders were freed from that. a man called al-balar. he's on the run. there's a wanted poster for him. concerns as to the nature and seniority of people released in these jailbreaks. >> thank you. i want to bring in our cnn law enforcement analyst. nick just mentioned a powerful person. a member of al qaeda who is on the loose. how much of this is based on the fact there are dangerous guys out...
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i believe that a stable afghanistan is important to pakistan. i think it's important to the region. >> schieffer: is a stable afghanistan possible if you have say 2500 american troops here? i mean no one believes if the people i talked to is correct that if afghanistan is ready to stand on its own and detent itself now can it be stable without an enormous amount of u.s. help. >> there ought to be a u.s. law passed saying retired members can't talk about specific troops on the ground. the active general they're there, they thank you what they're doing. i think that, i believe afghanistan can be stable. i think they must take responsibility for their security. the vast lion's share but i think the strategic partnership that president obama offered to president karzai is critical. not just physically. it's not how many troops and how much money it's the idea in the minds of of gaps that afghans that they have a reliable partner. >> schieffer: but what is it that needs to happen there? i mean, i'm just talking about what seems possible to you? is it
i believe that a stable afghanistan is important to pakistan. i think it's important to the region. >> schieffer: is a stable afghanistan possible if you have say 2500 american troops here? i mean no one believes if the people i talked to is correct that if afghanistan is ready to stand on its own and detent itself now can it be stable without an enormous amount of u.s. help. >> there ought to be a u.s. law passed saying retired members can't talk about specific troops on the...
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but that is certainly the perspective that many in afghanistan and pakistan and in that region share about the u.s. footprint in that part of the world. >> but if the reason we are there in addition to helping stabilize that country is to secure our own security here, what happens if when we pull out afghanistan devolves into civil war? does that pose threats for us and our security? >> well, absolutely. what we've seen in the past is that when there's a country like afghanistan that is unstable, without a central government, where people can operate in the shadows and plan attacks, the united states is susceptible to that environment. it's not only here in the united states but u.s. interests around the world. and that's why the u.s. has to maintain or believes it has to maintain that presence there. there's no doubt that going forward many of these issues are going to come to the surface. afghanistan could find itself in a very bloody civil war. iraq after the u.s. withdrawal has not gotten necessarily better. there's still violence. there are still attacks. but to some extent u.s.
but that is certainly the perspective that many in afghanistan and pakistan and in that region share about the u.s. footprint in that part of the world. >> but if the reason we are there in addition to helping stabilize that country is to secure our own security here, what happens if when we pull out afghanistan devolves into civil war? does that pose threats for us and our security? >> well, absolutely. what we've seen in the past is that when there's a country like afghanistan...
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i'm abby martin welcome to breaking this is that so an effort to extend a personal introduction to pakistan's new prime minister secretary of state john kerry made a special visit to the country this week the trip was supposed to focus on strengthen the relationship with pakistani leadership but instead it kept getting overshadowed by just one little issue drones the topic heavy on the minds of pakistani citizens who've been subjected to the terror almost daily drone bombings for years a practice that has only grown exponentially under obama's leadership in fact according to government officials the u.s. just launched another drone strike in the country this week killing at least six people don't worry though they were all suspected militants which we already know means absolutely nothing so understandably kerry was hounded repeatedly by pakistanis wanting to know when the u.s. would end its drone war there and it's not just the locals in kerry's pakistani counterpart. stress that the answer isn't a slow draw down but instead an end to the strikes altogether and finally unable to avoid deal w
i'm abby martin welcome to breaking this is that so an effort to extend a personal introduction to pakistan's new prime minister secretary of state john kerry made a special visit to the country this week the trip was supposed to focus on strengthen the relationship with pakistani leadership but instead it kept getting overshadowed by just one little issue drones the topic heavy on the minds of pakistani citizens who've been subjected to the terror almost daily drone bombings for years a...
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he was a cameraman going from pakistan to afghanistan. most of the time, he was questioned about the leadership of al jazeera. anyone who works for any news organization, the big ones, how much do you know about your leaders? but the fact that this is happened over and over again, it's our job to cover it.>> the hunger strikers at guantanamo are being forced fed. they take a tube, stick it in their nose. very painful.no anesthesia. during the bush administration, they did not sterilize you could see the blood in the bile from the prior prisoner going into your own nose. force-feeding a person who understood the consequences of refusing food amounts to torture. this is going on right now under the obama administration. >> norman is going to get the floor and we will take final statements all the way up the panel. thank you so much for coming out to this session.>> what we've just heard about the last few minutes is part of a hugely important yet relatively small part of what has been called now for almost a dozen years the war on terror. w
he was a cameraman going from pakistan to afghanistan. most of the time, he was questioned about the leadership of al jazeera. anyone who works for any news organization, the big ones, how much do you know about your leaders? but the fact that this is happened over and over again, it's our job to cover it.>> the hunger strikers at guantanamo are being forced fed. they take a tube, stick it in their nose. very painful.no anesthesia. during the bush administration, they did not sterilize...
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strike in pakistan. when you talk to people in the administration, or when they are willing to go on the record to the press about these things, they will describe these drone strikes as having been reported. they never full on admit that the united states is carrying them out. but it is the united states carrying them out. the fact that we know these things are happening and that our government nevertheless considers them to be deniable is frankly one of the more orwellian things about being an american citizen in the 21st center pi. the closest thing we have to a face for the drone policy or the drone non-policy is this man. he is the face of this policy that we have of killing people outside of war zones using this particular tool. and he is the face of the policy both because he is the man who is reported to bring specific names and specific details of specific targets to the president for the president's personal approval. so to the extent that there is a kill list, this guy is reportedly the keeper
strike in pakistan. when you talk to people in the administration, or when they are willing to go on the record to the press about these things, they will describe these drone strikes as having been reported. they never full on admit that the united states is carrying them out. but it is the united states carrying them out. the fact that we know these things are happening and that our government nevertheless considers them to be deniable is frankly one of the more orwellian things about being...
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to sterilize muslims there's been a series of deadly assault of medical teams across the country and pakistan is one of only three countries where polio remains endemic. emergency crews are struggling to contain a fast moving wildfire in southern california flames broke out monday afternoon and have quickly spread to over four hundred hectares of land with winds of up to thirty two kilometers per hour thousands of people have been evacuated from the area including dozens of residents whose homes are under threat by the blaze. it's almost time for the next scheduled crew swap at the international space station in a few hours so yes rocket will blast off from baikonur kazakstan taking with it an international team or now making their final preparations and. is there. we're not that far off from the russian soyuz of blasting a traditional three man crew up to the i assess it to be led by the russian commander in chief backed up by the american ash. second time to the i assess but new look up in the european space agency is first time to the orbiting space but he's got at least two space walks to
to sterilize muslims there's been a series of deadly assault of medical teams across the country and pakistan is one of only three countries where polio remains endemic. emergency crews are struggling to contain a fast moving wildfire in southern california flames broke out monday afternoon and have quickly spread to over four hundred hectares of land with winds of up to thirty two kilometers per hour thousands of people have been evacuated from the area including dozens of residents whose...
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he was ambassador to pakistan from 2010 to 2012. we will have many hair-raising stories about that relationship in a period when u.s.-pakistani relations were, shall we say, not easy including the capture and killing of bin bin laden. before that he had an aassignment in baghdad -- [laughter] he had responsibility for overseeing the planning for the draw down of u.s. troops. before that ambassador to syria, deputy chief in czech republic and poland and served on the national security council. last but not least, right here is peter. the senior staff attorney at the aclu southern california office. there he has the distinction of having one important cases against the lapd over searching people on skid row, and against the city of her reno valley which was raiding african-american barbershops without a warrant. sorry. he's been a law clerk on u.s. circuit court, and has had a distinguished career outside and inside the aclu. please join me in welcoming the distinguished panel. [applause] henry, over to you. >> thank you, greg. we are
he was ambassador to pakistan from 2010 to 2012. we will have many hair-raising stories about that relationship in a period when u.s.-pakistani relations were, shall we say, not easy including the capture and killing of bin bin laden. before that he had an aassignment in baghdad -- [laughter] he had responsibility for overseeing the planning for the draw down of u.s. troops. before that ambassador to syria, deputy chief in czech republic and poland and served on the national security council....
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it would allow us to make sure that there is freedom of religion in china, egypt and pakistan, countries which are part of that convention. we should remind ourselves that if we can make progress saying we are promising but it doesn't mean anything if you cannot force us, they also can make the same promise in the same spirit. it's a little bit optimistic to think that just because people signed the convention that means they are going to implement it. the only way in which it can be american leverage is if we actually lean on these countries if we twist their arm saying we expect you to do is come an it. i think that we should pause over the two. i think that they have built serious problems. hundreds of millions of people don't have access to clean water and differ to get into this tunnel peer sites, their children get sick and we are saying forget about that. what you mean our post-urgent priorities. that is the most urgent priority because americans want to feel totally comfortable when they visit your country. around the world today are countries that have real problems with malnutr
it would allow us to make sure that there is freedom of religion in china, egypt and pakistan, countries which are part of that convention. we should remind ourselves that if we can make progress saying we are promising but it doesn't mean anything if you cannot force us, they also can make the same promise in the same spirit. it's a little bit optimistic to think that just because people signed the convention that means they are going to implement it. the only way in which it can be american...
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. >> this program gave us an enormous amount of information about al qaeda in pakistan. the administration continues to use the intelligence every day in drone strikes. it is not just actable intelligence but how they operate. since the program was shut down we have seen the emergence of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. we have had the emergence of al- shabab merging with al qaeda central. and al qaeda in africa. are we struggling in a way? the information we have on pakistan and the lack of information, is it harder to get the intelligence we need because we do not have this tool? >> one of the most important threads of information that i saw when i got there and still in 2006, late in the game, was detainee information. i already suggested to you that i am willing to adjust the detainee program. we have other penetrations and sources and knowledge. we have a better sense of the imminence of attack, what state of danger we are in as a nation. i told you we entered the black side in 2006. lazy journalists sometimes they we closed them. we did not. we kept the option op
. >> this program gave us an enormous amount of information about al qaeda in pakistan. the administration continues to use the intelligence every day in drone strikes. it is not just actable intelligence but how they operate. since the program was shut down we have seen the emergence of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. we have had the emergence of al- shabab merging with al qaeda central. and al qaeda in africa. are we struggling in a way? the information we have on pakistan and the...
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obama's policies around the war what's happening in the extended war and the four of drone attacks in pakistan and beyond. >> host: in a recent column you praised senator rand paul. maybe that is the wrong word. >> guest: i talked about what he did. rand paul engaged in a filibuster for a day, and it was quite remarkable protesting drawn attacks. protesting and it was not only rand paul but a number of his colleagues on the other side of the ogle. democratic senator ron wyden also spoke because he along with senator udall had also been deeply concerned about these issues from the ground attacks to surveillance. but senator paul was raising on that day and we will see if he raises it again as could a u.s. citizen be killed on u.s. soil even in a cafe and a drone at tak? he detailed what happened in yemen with the killing of anwar al-awlaki. this is a story that they went to investigate the former democracy now producer and what dirty wars that is what is coming out. he went and met with the family. but not only did president obama have them killed without trial and without charge drove the atta
obama's policies around the war what's happening in the extended war and the four of drone attacks in pakistan and beyond. >> host: in a recent column you praised senator rand paul. maybe that is the wrong word. >> guest: i talked about what he did. rand paul engaged in a filibuster for a day, and it was quite remarkable protesting drawn attacks. protesting and it was not only rand paul but a number of his colleagues on the other side of the ogle. democratic senator ron wyden also...
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by november, the enemy is on the run, forced to flee into the mountains and across the border to pakistan. but while bin laden remains at large, washington's attention turns to iraq. to saddam. >> i think the united states, since "desert storm" has always had a, a, a various planning with respect to iraq. >> "operation desert storm." also known as the first gulf war. in 1991, following iraq's invasion of kuwait, a u.s.-led coalition of 34 countries drives saddam's forces out of kuwait and decimates the iraqi army in six weeks. but despite that overwhelming victory, president george h.w. bush faces criticism at home for not going all the way to baghdad to rid the world of saddam hussein. >> i made very, very clear from day one, that it was not an objective of the coalition to get saddam hussein out of there, by force. >> dick cheney, defense secretary at the time, supports the first president bush's restraint. >> i think we got it right. conversations i had with leaders in the region afterwards, they were concerned that we not get into a position where we were an imperialist power, willy-n
by november, the enemy is on the run, forced to flee into the mountains and across the border to pakistan. but while bin laden remains at large, washington's attention turns to iraq. to saddam. >> i think the united states, since "desert storm" has always had a, a, a various planning with respect to iraq. >> "operation desert storm." also known as the first gulf war. in 1991, following iraq's invasion of kuwait, a u.s.-led coalition of 34 countries drives...
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for miss leigh introduced pure life bottled water was a rare sight in pakistan. now nestle dominates a vast market that it created itself i grew up in a city where you could go just like anyone else but also water and you would get a glass of water for free without any fear of its quality or it sounds and what's happened over the last ten to fifteen years i mean in my own consciousness is that i have seen and witnessed a replacement of drinking water a commodification of drinking water. i would say that it's nestle that's done it it's been a confluence of factors nestle appeared on the scene it started providing your life drinking water and all of a sudden coca-cola shows up he shows up and then a whole bunch of private manufactured watersports shows up as well all producing clean water clean water because of the terribly old and creaky infrastructure of the sanitation authority and then before you know it everywhere you go if you ask for a glass of water i have to be fifteen rupees. the most out of this water is not drinkable we have to drink it as this is the o
for miss leigh introduced pure life bottled water was a rare sight in pakistan. now nestle dominates a vast market that it created itself i grew up in a city where you could go just like anyone else but also water and you would get a glass of water for free without any fear of its quality or it sounds and what's happened over the last ten to fifteen years i mean in my own consciousness is that i have seen and witnessed a replacement of drinking water a commodification of drinking water. i would...
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we're doing something in yemen and pakistan now called signature strikes. there's two kinds of -- basically two strikes. one is a personality strike with a known individual, and you decided that you're going to take him out so i'm, you know, the no , ma'am mall head of al-qaeda in the aftermath of bin laden's demise. he's a personality strike. if the u.s. finds him, they take him out or the leader of a pakistani taliban killed in the drone strike in 2009, but then we're also doing things called signature strikes, that sesh region of pakistan and yes , yn determined to be hostile zone and any military-aged males in the area with a remote connection to the u.s. flagged as a potential terrorist, maybe they went to the same mosque as them, delivered food to a house, maybe they were on a phone call with someone. if that individual is in a group of other military-aged males, u.s. policy is to assume they are terrorists and kill them. it's like a precrime like the movie "minority report," we kill people intentionally. this is important to listen to each detail of
we're doing something in yemen and pakistan now called signature strikes. there's two kinds of -- basically two strikes. one is a personality strike with a known individual, and you decided that you're going to take him out so i'm, you know, the no , ma'am mall head of al-qaeda in the aftermath of bin laden's demise. he's a personality strike. if the u.s. finds him, they take him out or the leader of a pakistani taliban killed in the drone strike in 2009, but then we're also doing things called...
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participated in the coalition activities in libya, and sent a special operations force 150 miles into pakistan to get bin laden. in each of the cases he was concerned and he was somewhat reluctant to put americans in harm's way and to commit the american military, but he did it. and i think in those cases it's been in our national interests. look, this president, he doesn't want to get stampeded. and i think really, his tone and his words are kind of his way of saying that that old thing that presidents used to say. we will respond at a time, place, and manner of our choosing. it will not be defined by the enemy. it will not be defined by our critics. it will certainly not be defined inside the beltway. it will be defined in the way that we want to do it. also, we've got to posture the military force, we have to consult with allies, we have to talk to congress there is work to be done. i think at the end of the day, the president will act and it will be a good act to deter and to punish assad. >> i remain skeptical about why he was so undramatic there. usually when you're about to kill people,
participated in the coalition activities in libya, and sent a special operations force 150 miles into pakistan to get bin laden. in each of the cases he was concerned and he was somewhat reluctant to put americans in harm's way and to commit the american military, but he did it. and i think in those cases it's been in our national interests. look, this president, he doesn't want to get stampeded. and i think really, his tone and his words are kind of his way of saying that that old thing that...